The Sun. — London, England, 1826-11-09 00:00:00

GREECE. Th e Moniteur contains the followin.l letter from the Count D'Harcourt to the Parisian Philhellenic' Cotn• mittee. it is dated from the Lazaretto of Toulon, where t h e Count was performing quarantine, and gives the fol lowing view of the general state of Greece on the 30th of September, the period at which the writer embarked on his return to his own country The Greek Fleet, commanded by Miaoulis and Slaehtury, had on the I 1 th and 12th of September off Mytilene a more serious engagement than any s►nce the beginning 'of the war. Adm►ral de Itigny and several French vessels were witnesses to it. 'Both sideS had nearly mustered their whole strength. The Greeks at tacked bravely : corvettes► with only a few guns, fought within pistol-shot of two deckers, which covered them with grape-shot. All, friends and foes, did justice to their brilliant courage. Yet though time fight, lasted two days, the results were comparatively unimportant. The Turks took to flight, and the Greeks sent in several fire-ships which were very near taking effect, for they set fire to the bowsprit of the frigate mounted by the Turkish Admiral, but the crew succeeding in putting it out. The loss in me►► was not considerable. _ " The Egyptian fleet, coming from Alexandria, was at Rhodes on the 25th of September, where it .expected another division. It was : tben to join ibrahina, and to sail against The steam vessel commanded by Hastings, arrived at Napoli on the , 15th of September. It carries eight 66- vounders with hollow )aullets, which could not fail to pro duce much effect, 4 At my departure, preparations were making for a se. cola expedition against Athens. Fahvier and Karaiskaki wett to manatuvre in conceit; the one attacking through the Pyrcus, and the other marching upon Thebes, Which was the point of communication between the Pacha and the remainder of his troops. A diversion was also to be made towards . Larissa and the Gulf of Volo, in order to alarm-the rear of the Turks, and compel them to evacuate Attica. Much zeal was displayed towards this campaign, and the Roumeliots had its success much at heart, because their country being almost entirely occupied by the enemy, they were very desirous of liberating at least a part of it, in order to be entitled to send Representatives to the Ge neral AsSembly. " This Asse - mbly, which is to renew the Members of the Government, and perhaps to change its form, \S ill take place immediately at Porro. " I bring back with me a nephew of Canaris, who has been three months on board Admiral de Rigny's frigate. He is about twelve years of age, very amiable and very witty." _ _ Count d'llarcourt then enters into the details of the manner in which the stores and money „furnished by the Committee were.apPlied under his direction, and termi nates by the following important statement. "It appears certain thatnegociauons have been, opened at Constanti nople. Austria alone rtfase.c to . enter into stipulations with respect .to the Greeks; but on what basis will they treat P Of this lam ignorant." PARIS, Nov. 6.—A letter from Constantinople, containi the following particulars of Canaris:— " This Canaris is truly a hero, and what is not com mon, he does not suspect it. " A great person has offered him nn asylum in Vrance, in case the cause he defends should be unsuceessful. - ' I accept it,' he replied, for my family. As for myself, the sacrifice of my life is made. I shall die here victorious or vanquished !"lhe war between the Turks and the Greeks is ad internecionem. But in. the towns, for instance at Smyrnu they liVe together as - scenes Of carnage did not every dayi take place between the two nations in other places ; and its if Itrara and Frei°, which age at, their gates, were nut still heaps,.of smoking ruins." (From the Constitutionnd.) . . • CoRFLT, Ou'r. 7.—(Extract of a private letter.)—Ac cording to the most recent letters from Nauplia, the Greeks are preparing a force of about .5,000 men, to drive Red scbid Pacha from before the city of Athens. P. Mavro micludis is to have the chielcommand. It was the Gene refs themselves destined for the expedition that demanded it from Government. Mavromichalis is not an expe rienced soldier, but his devotedness to his country since the Greek revolution commenced has procured him great influence over the hearts of all his countrymen. These auxiliaries were to leave the plains of Argos on the 27th of September, and we expect that they are now in Attica. The army has for its Commanders the bravest Generals— Nicetas, Londos, C. Mavromichalis, Ike., and it is com posed of the most experienced soldiers in all the Pe lo ponnesus. The expedition, however, would not, for want of provisions, have taken place, notwithstand ing the enthusiasm of all the men composing it, had not a happy event supplied it with what was necessary in time. Six vessels, which a great wind had separated from the Greek squadron, anti dispersed in the waters of Candies, were, on the ISth of last month, near Suds, and were preparing to return to join the Greek fleet, when they suddenly perceived four vessels in the ?pen sea. They immediately set sail, and overtook them in the'waters between Candia and Cerigo. One of the latter, which was a brig of war, opposed the Greeks, in order that the other three, which were only transports, laden with provisions, might have time to escape. The Greeks fell upon it impetuously, chased it, and took two of the transports. They afterwards returned to the island of Hydra, where they diseharged one ; the other was sent to Nauplia. • The Greek camp in Attica, too, bad been in want of provisiOns, but Colonel Palmier, who fortified the peninsula of Methana, and provisioned it well by means of the libe rality of the Philhelleitists of Europe, being reconciled to General •Karaiskaki, caused a great quantity of provisions to be transported into Attica. PonTsmotiTir, Nov. 6.—A Court-Martial as sembled this morning on board his Majesty ship Vic tory, for the purpose of trying Mr. Robert Marshall, Aestatant-Surgeon of his Majesty's bri Plumper, ou charges exhibit e d aga i ns t hi m by Mr. Barnard, master of the said brig, viz. ae For frequent inebriety, midi cer,like conduct, and associating with the tbremast- Mtn ill Ow galley.) . After the most contradictory testimonies were given, the Court came to the follow ing time charges were not proved against the said Mr. Robert Marshall, and therefore acquitted him. Captain Collier, who commanded the Liverpool when Mr. MarAltall was Assistant-Surgeon with him, came forward, and gave hiin a most flattering charac ter, and stated to the Court, that he did not know a man in his situation he would ao 500 hihite'VeCre atly r to % r i e tilhiui again. Th ere were several o t h er oii speak in his favour , but were iLot required. The members were as follow __ • Seyrur,ur, Ca Main Itriglh;, fir. Bart., Captain Hi ll, Captain `Warren, y Sir , • -i .bord Bron, Peelle', Bart., Lord Napier, Chalice Sulivan, Bart., Captain Curzon, and Captain Dundas. A correspondent writes from Greenock as follows ; 1 ----" I have . just now been one of many thousands of spectators) to witnessing the launch of an East Inilt dia. man named the Mountstuart Elphinstone, buin Messrs. Steel and Son's yard, for the Bombay trade. She went oir in admirable style ; the fineness of the d a y, and the immense crowd of spectators, rendering the scene one of a most animating kind. I understand the owners intend having a regular succession of first class vessels for the same trade, an Bombay has now become a place of Treat importance to our own city, A rei v.irwt. cm' our manufactures. PRICES OF STOCKS TIIL Rank stock 2(124 $ pet Cent. Iced SI 3 per Cent. Cons 3 per Cent. -- I)itto Red ...M. 4 ncr Cent. New l)6 Ditto, 1826 6% hank Long Ann. - India Stock ~......... ............... ....40 pna. PRICES OF FOREIGN FL Austrian lionds,s per cent. — I Prazillan Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds. (I . 6ban Bonds, 6 per ...ct. Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1814 39 :IN 9 Danish, 3 per cent. Greek limas Ditto, 1E496 1414 (;uat.►n►dla —77 Mexican Bonds r L; I ."1815 PRICES OF SHARES Boisnot Mining Company British Iron Mining Company Castello and EspiritoSantDßrazil PRICE; OF IRISH Think Stock Gov. Stock, 351 per cent. ... 8714 1 ,4 Ditto, New ~. WI% 4 per Cent. 96 1 ,4 6 6N, Gov. Deb. 354 per cent BP" Conisolo t 3 per cent BO4 Royal canal Stock Grand CAllal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent. 'Ballast Office Deb. tper cent. 93 MAILS. Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due. 0 America 1 0 Guernsey &Jersey. 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Hamburgli 0 Buenas Ayres ' 0 Do»agliadee 0 0 Jamaica 0 1 Dublin 0 Flanders 0 0 Lisbon 0 I France 0 Gottenburgh () 1 Waterford 0 111011 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 4l minutes after 10. E Evening 11 minutes after 11. Übt. .i;"4-itn. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, NOV. 9, 1826. Reports have been for some days circulated with much industry, that it is not the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to agitate the question of the Corn Laws until after the Christmas Holidays. If positive information on the subject is wanting, the .„ reason of the thing would be conclusive against the probability of the postponement of this important question. How does the matter stand ? His MA- Jr.srlr's Proclamation for the opening of the ports for the importation of certain descriptions of grain and pulse was ,issued on the Ist of September, and the permission thereby given for the entry of these articles was to continue in force for 40 days after the meeting of Parliament. On the same day a Proclamation was issued for assembling Parliament on the 14th November. For what purpose was Parliament thus summoned to meet at this unusual season, but for the discussion of the Corn Question ? And if this question is now nut to be diseusaed till after the Christmas holidays, the forty days during which im portation was permitted to go on after the meeting of Parliament will have expired, and it will cease a$ that moment at which it may be most required. Prices would immediately get up at a season when it is most necessary that they should be low, and all the evils re sulting from violent, floctuation" would ensue. But his Majesty's Ministers having taken upon themselves the responsibility of the measure they adopted, must immediately apply to Parliament for an indemnity ; end we may be sure that if they did not apply for this indemnity there are too many Members interest ed against importation who would not let the mat ter rest where it is. In fact, it is well known that many Members have avowed their intention to ori ginate motions on the subject, ,if it were not imme diately entered upon. But Ministers will not give them the opportunity of doing so. They will not shrink from a responsibility which the state of the Markets, and the regulations which govern importa tion, rendered necessary, and without which the nation would have been now suffering from the distress con sequent upon an exorbitant price of Grain. The pre sent average prices fully prove the accuracy of the in formation on which the Government acted, and the wisdom of the measures they adopted on this occasion. The voice of the nation applauds those measures, an' Parliament will readily indemnify them, notwithstand ing the interested and factious opposition which buy be made. . 'rho necessity, therefore, of bringing forward this subject immediately on the meeting of both Houses is apparent, and it will be impossible, in the iliScussion of so material a part of the question, to avoid the general principles of the Corn Laws. Hence, this subject will form the great leading feature of the first proceedings of the new Parliament, and we have every confidence that his MAJESTY'S Ministers will be prepared with resolu tions, which will place the importation of foreign corn upon fixed and understood principles, beneficial in their operation to all classes of the community. We haVe received the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday, and the Etoile dated Tuesday morni n g . They present us with a great variety of inf ormation, hut none of it is of an important character. The re ports of a heavy fall in the French Funds; which were ill circulation yesterday, are not confirmed, the decline havin g b een leas than half per Cent. intelligence from Constantinople contained in these pap ers comers down to the 20th ult. Anoth er fire had brok en out on the 11th, Sultan Acirmitn, and near the Mosque of was not got under until it had , , done considerable damage, and consumed the new towe r, which had been constructed in the place of the one destroyed with the Janissaries. The SULTAN; .L- a.i, lilt vaar:.htarnri 1 • their appearance. He ordered a piece of twelve Pias tres to be presented to each soldier. After the review his Highness was entertained by the Seraskier at a grand fete, at which most of the foreign Ministers were also present. The organization of the new troops proceeds at Adrianople with activity and success. Public:traaquillity has been consolidated, and opposition daily becomes weaker. Orders had been given to the Capitan PACHA to return from Tenedos to Constan tinople with his fleet, the bad condition of which is said td be the cause of his coming nearer to the Dar daittlles. The Observer of Trieste, on the other hand, announces, under the head of Zante, that the Capitan PACHA has made a new landing in the Isle of Samos, and that the Egyptian expedition had arrived on the coast of the Morea. From the 11th' ,September to the Ist of October, there was no battle between the Greeks and Turks ; kit it seems by the confession of the latter that their loss in the affair of the 11th was greater than had been at first supposed. Accounts from the Morea again repeat that COLOCOTIIOI4I was going to march with a strong corps to the relief of Athens. The Monitcur gives an interesting letter from the Count COURT to the Parisian Philhellenic Committee, which will be found in another column, with some other in- formation respecting the affitirs of Greece. The intelligence from Lisbon comes down to the same date as that which we received direct from thence the day before yesterday, and furnishes us with but few additional particulars relative to the revolt in the Algarves, the termination of N . Vl'jell is looked upon as certain. From Madrid it is asserted in private lettere that ,he Government have succeeded in raising a sum equal 0 1,500,000 francs, for the payment of the Algcrine ribute, by pledging the Commanderies of St. John of Jerusalem. This security we should think not worth having unless the Knights are to receive some terri torial possession in return, which, from other rumours, DAY A T ONE O'CLOCK. South Se:► Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 21 22 pm. Ditto WO 2d. 21 22 pm.• Ditto Small Ditto Commercial Bank. for Opening India for Account Cons. for Account 82 IA [INDS AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Neapolitan, Bet Peruvian Bonds — Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, 5 per cent. Ditto, New 05i Russian, New, 5 p. c. ... ..... .85% Spanish, 1E321 I -------- 18141 —.. French Ream, 5 p. c....... 09t 50c. ---- Exchange 251. 00c. —3 per cent. --- Exchange —l. —e. AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Rate. £125 275 2115 323 5X itto 5 2, 9 STOCKS, - NOV. 6. - - - - , St. Patrick Incur. (per share) Royal Irish Ditto — Natismal Dttto -- Patriotic Ditto, — Hibernian Bank l7 Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine -- Imperial Mine u — Mining Co. of Ireland I% 1 Comnwrcial 13tiddings — we consider not improbable. A new entry of . French troops into Spain is much ;sled of in Madrid, and it is said that a change of he system of the Government is to be effected by this Foreign aid. The affairs of France itself occupy .I:ut a small por tion of these papers., An Qrdinance of the KING, dated the. sth inst., convokes the Chamber of Peers and the Chamber of Deputies for the 12th December. The KING'a girth-day was celebrated on Sunday, when he received the ,congratulations of the several authorities. The same day was inaptly selected for the inauguratio►► of a new Ten►ple of Plutus. This Bourse, or Exchange, which was commenced BUONAPARTE, is a magnificent building. The hall is of immense size, 116 feet by 76, and can contain upwards of 2,000 persons. Fasncts Futios.—Paaxs, Nov. 6.—Five per Cents. 99f. 60c. 50c. 40c. 30c. 40c. Vie. 30e. 40c, 35c. SOc. ; Three per Cents. 70f. lbc. 701. 69f. 95e. 90c. 95c. 701.69 f, 90c. ; Bank Actions, 2047 f. 50c. 2050 f. ; Naples Iteutes, 774. 76f. '7oc. 65c. 70c. 'Mc.. Cortes Bonds, 91 4' ; Roy a l Ditt o , 491 f. 49f. 49i }.-- Exchange—One n3ontb, 25f. 55c. ; Three months, 25f. 35c. It is mentioned by the latest accounts from Con stantinople, that the Armenian Persian DAOUD ZA DOR now DAOUD KHAN ) . the same who in 1816 proceeded to Paris from th. &hail to Louis the 18th, has just arrived at Constantinople. It is re ported that the object of his mission is to induee.the PORTE to join Persia against Russia. He is lodged at Kalkeuee, •the ancient Chalcedon, and is said to Lave solicited permission to reside in Constantinople The A/Igen:eine Minn& of the 2d inst. has been received this forenoon. It furnishes the substance of the additional Convention between Russia and Turkey, tome clauses of which are likely to be important in their consequences, if the Convention should ever be ratified, of which a doubt seems still to exist. The 'ollowing is an extract ODEMA, ocr. IR. The following is the substance of the important, addi tional convention, proposed by the 'Russian Commission ers at Akerinann, and accepted by the Turkish negotiators. The article Concerning Servia will probably make a great impression on all the Greeks. . Aar. I. Confirmation of the treaty of Bucharest which is to be considered as inserted at full length in the present convention. Any. IL Determination of .the, frond ers in Bessarabia, ac cording to Art. IV. of th e treaty of Bucharest. The fron tiers are to be determined as fixed in the protocol of the conference of 21st August, 1817, between Baron Stroga noff and the Turkish Commissioners. ART. 111. All preceding Conventions relating to the Principalities of M o ld av i a a nd Wallachia, are confirmed, The Porte engage s to renew the Haiti Scheriff of 180 2, within six mont hs after the signing of the present Con. vention. In consideration of the present situation of these provinces, and it having b ee n thought fit to intrust the go. vernment of the m to Moldavian and Wallachian Boyars, an alteration to which Russia has assented; the Porta ac cedes to the clauseti which have been specified for this ob ject in the concessions. These clauses relate to the choice of the Princes which, according to ancient custom, is to be made by the two Divans, and confirmed by the Porte, which is only t o g i ve t h e i nvest i tur e to the new Hos.po. dare, to tlui,re.eligibility of the nospodars, their deposition, resignation, and the duration of their Government ; to regulations for the levy of the taxes and ground-rents, and the entire remissio n of t h e se ground-rents for two years ; to the return of, the Boyars, who have emigrated, during the revolution, and the number of Beschlis, and Basch. Beachl"gas, wllieh is fixed. by the Hospodars, and the respective Divans, 'without any deviation from the propo sition fixed before the year 1821. Art. IV. As Russia, In conformity with the 3d Article of the Treaty of lineh arest , has restored to the Porte the conquered fortified pl a c es in Asia, , the frontier between the two empire. shall continue henceforth ar it now is. Art. V. The advant ag es promised to th e & x ylem by the Bth,Artide of th e T r e a ty of Bucharest, s hot be give" to them in the course of a year, after the signiul of the present convention. These advantages, requre them, are-- t h e l ev ying of th e taxes and groun - as the Pep ti d es i lion to travel with their own passports ; freedom of reli gion, and of the administration ofjustice ; the administra tion of estates, situated in Servia, belonging to Turkish owners, but with the obligation to give an account of the produce; the establishment of schools and printing offices; the exclusion of the Turks from Servia, except garrisons in the fortresses, &c. " Every other demand to be made by the Servians, which is not incompatible with the duty of good sub jects to the Sultan, shall be granted by the Porte." ART. VI. Liquidations of the concerns and claims of the subjects of both parties, including the robberies of the Barbary Corsairs, and the damage done since 1821, by the violation of the existing treaties. A mixed Commission shall conclude this liquidation in 8 months, and the gross amount of the sum to be fixed shall be paid to the Russian legation at Constantinople. ART. VII. This article is divided into four points.— (1) All the points contained in the 7th article of th e treaty of Jassy in regard to the Barbary powers are retained, and the Porte farther engages in the time of two months, after the delivery of the reclamations of the Russian lega tion, to make good to the Russian legation, out of the Im perial Treasury, every injury done by the Barbary States, in case the latter shall not immediately do so themselves, in compliance with the first firmans to be addressed to them for the purpose. (2) The Porte promises to fulfil all the obligations laid upon it by the commercial treaty with Russia of 1783, and especially the Ist, 31st, and 35th articles, as well as every thin that guarantees the free passage of ships under the Russian flag. (3) The Porte grants the trans-shipment of goods, and hinders every innovation. (4.) The Porte accepts the good offices of Russia, with respect to the admission of all flags into the Black Sea that have hitherto been excluded from it. ART. VIII. The ratifications of the present Convention shall take place within four weeks, or sooner if possible. Private accounts from Lisbon mention that a note has been addressed by Sir W. A'CouRT to the Foreign Ambassadors at that Court, explaining the circumstances under which a party of British Marines had been landed to protect the PRINCESS REGENT. Extract of a letter from Paris :—" It is reported in the politi cal circles, that the recal of Mons. de Moustier from Spain is fully decided upon in the Council. This measure is looked upon as the forerunner of a clangs in the Ministry. It is a well-known fact, that his Excellency has reaped a plenteous harvest in the Penin sula, of cordons and decorations, for his staunch support of the Absolutists : he was also the very soul of the Camerilla. Every thing seems to indicate that M. de Villele is willing to shake off the shackles with which he has united himself to Russia, and to form a closer union with England. It is certain that great cool•. ness prevails between Villele and the Count Porzo di Borgo ; and the dissatisfaction that prevails at the Russian Embassy is of such a nature as not to be disguised." The accounts of the revenue, so far as the official quarter has expired, are said to be extremely unfavourable ; but as might be expected from the state of trade, the chief falling off is in the de partment of the Customs. We have often found occasion to blame the imperfect manner in which the official returns are made , up, yet though the voice of all men who attend to the subject is raised to exclaim against their want of clearness, there seems to be a disposition to lessen rather than to increase the quantum of in formation which is doled forth to the public. A moat useful do cument, which formerly was invariably attached to the quarterly returns—viz., the comparative produce of different articles coming 'under the head of excise duties—is now, and has been for a long time past, wholly omitted. A vague sort of an excuse for this omission was, we believe, put forth some months ago, by stating ; that the collection of so many duties had been transferred from the head of excise to that of the custnins; that the miblication of the :,thival.doeument no longer afforded a fair list of the comparative return of that portion of the public ieventie. This excuse might perhaps be allowed to pass current while such changes in the mode of collecting duties were in progress, :Jut it is of no weight now, inasmuch as no transfer has taken place of the collection of duties on any articles from the Excise to the Customs sines April, 182 ; therefore, the usual table might have been.made public with great utility, on the sth of July and the 10th of October last, affording a species of information of much value to men of business, and the same means which the Treasury heretofore always afforded for estimating in detail the situation of the public revenue..-- Times. The Greek Deputies appear to have been as unfor tunate in the management of their affairs in the United States as in Europe. A pamphlet' has been published in New York by a gentleman who was employed as counsel for the Deputies in m arbitration which took place between them and the mercantile houses which undertook to build the frigates, and puts us in pos session of some curious facts, which incontrovertably prove that the system of jobbing has been carried on to as great and ruinous an extent to the cause of Greece on the other side of the Atlantic as in this country. The following is an extract of the pamphlet in ques- on paenardsfrforommtitiehe Greek " In the early part of the year 1825 , a gentleman of dis tinction arrived in the city of New York, . being the bearer of instructions from the Greek Deputies residing in Lon don, for the purchase or construction of two frigates in this country. These instructions were addressed jointly to two mercantile houses in this city, and the gentleman above referred to. They were accompanied by two letters of credit front Samuel Williams, of London, in favour of each of the houses, amounting to 25,000/. each. At the same time the Deputies assured the houses, that as to the additional funds that might be necessary, hey would im mediately open a further credit, either with Mr. Williams or with the Messrs. Ricardo, with which latter gentlemen .a loan for two millions sterling to the Greek Government had been contracted. The two houses in vestion accept ed the commission, and on or about the 14th of May, 1825, -they coma enced the construction of two frigates-by days' work. On the 23t1 of May, having draWn for the 50,000/. on Williams, they drew for the further sum of 25,000/., and from time to time after they drew bills on the Messrs. Ricardo to such an extent, that on the 31st of October each house bad drawn (including the bills on Williams) for 77,5001. sterling. In a letter, dated the 31st of Oc -tober, they, for the first time, informed the Deputies of sions which will not be here repeated, they had made a , thy probable cost of these frigates, and that, under profes total wreck of the' whige." in describing these words . used by a cotemporsry, nefarious transactions. subsequent details of this We cannot do better than fi nish the recital in the evidence taken before the arbi- ' ; d Sta tes frigate t he B • Brandywine, trators, that the United liveoak, pamphlet, e a t ' , before. o f k and completely built a short time. frigates; built of in cost only 273;00Q dollars, or a little more equipped, of th e . f • • • of one of theie Greek frigates, sold equipment of the other,—(both having than the to pay for .evmusly cost 750,000 ' dollars,)--Ldid not having pr _ __. more than 233 ' l7 ferior timber ; bring,. 0 dollars; that after the ex lure of 750,000 dollars, or nearly 150,0004, P en 1 250 No more than , dollars more would have been , n ecessary to prepare these frigates for sea ; and ~ 'that the one which actually did, sail cost Greece .about 150,0004, or nearly as much as three large frigates like the Brandywine. Out of this • immense i'a th f c 'expenditure there were some - very pretty pickings, 'both for the merchants who undertook the job,—the ship-builders,---the French agent for Greece, and the A moriesin 111Witorg_ Th. rnprrantilP house: had 10 coning no risk, (as they look to be paid all their outlay in advance) ; about 61,000 dollars were paid by these houses to sub-agents appointed by themselves ; a Cap tail) CHAUNCEY, of the American navy, received 12,000 dollars for seeing that nobody ran away with the said frigates while they were on the stocks building 850 dollars were paid to an attorney for drawing out the contract with the said mercantile houses; and when at last the poor Deputies, in order to:get onset their frigates at the price which might have purchase(' I nearly a fleet, were obliged to refer their rights to arbitration; the Hon. Judge PLATT and his two fel low arbitrators claimed 4,500 dollars for their labour. . We shall conclude with the very curious paragraph in which this American Solomon first secures the reward of his own wise decision, before he 'gives any decree on the matters in dispute : "We do award, adjudge, and determine, that from tie avails of said ship or ships, and their tackle, apparnh ture, and equipments, and the other property contained in the said assignment, or such part as shall be sold by of pursuant to the terms of the said submission , there albe first deducted the sum of FOUR THOUSAND FIVN HUNDItr DOLLARS, fur our services as arbitrators in t he premises: Our silenez with reference , to t h e i m portant de cision which the VICE•CH ANCELLO R pronounce d on Tuesday last, as to the liability of non -incor p orated Joint Stock Companies, has not proceed ed from ado inattention to this important subject, but solelY °P tile ground that this decree 'miiiht be appealed against by those most immediately concerned, and in which event it might by possibility be altogether reversed. the Britis h The proceedings were taken against Stannary Company, and the Imperial Distillery C°ln . pany, and by the decree, the Directors of these C oln ; panies have been held responsible for the sums recive by them from the Subscribers. It will not fail t° remarked, that the Directors and the Subscribers st°°' in exactly the same relative position to one anotber; and it therefore became absolutely necessary to s hiw some special ground for calling on a court of equity interfere between parties entitled to the same rig hts ' vested with the same character, and both, dejuresn3 deft ctoi forming one body of men united in powe r ' ship together. For it must be obvious to ally 11 ' it without some special ground attaching exclu sill" Y t° one or more of the. members'of the urns firm , 11 ' t other members could have no legal or equitable rig id ' against them. This special ground has been found in setting up their Directorial Fr aud. t t l i i ,i e ng Di i r n ectors are accused of having done sou r tt This'e 11 l e g o e f d l f a r w aud and consisted eguy' capacities, o a f ni i ° n u s n i ity plain e r p s tw d t h i ' c " --tif ler :1::;* That na i i r n e e e s to h r a s d b b ad een t : u inserted p in the list of Dire° torsactual others ls iDttohotiuntirsabtoicdtyilsn body-3d. ,a,uh thor b ity— Abs 2 d r v • ot rr b i l a o t tig : the whote number of sharesif:rtlt into y had ke t • in l', . P many their own hands, in order, ultimate 3 the on' fraud. to retain them, or reject them, according as —and lastly, that they . had proceeded to deactli t f, decd carrying on the proposed operations, before 1 1 d a ee d for the regulation of the partnership was prePer e -1 A .lite etoranurssaecotoirofnthe other might be profitable It is by no means intended to drip f the n jurisdiction of the Court i n C t l l i l an ein e se er l y ves'ill b e tray trisacrl thet omtialreletae,bwur: To attempt to do so, would be w be an utter ignorance of its province and power s ' t b; ye cause fraud in any transaction is preeis el Y t o f ,rYu.Point which gives jurisdiction to a C° l ' r gli y Court E ' l l ItY• But we have great doubts whet her ~, _ an E dfr q a u um i d t o y lstil b en as mt, aztl)eliexreeseptpotodvishirn otncoessiitrsy7efillt,lllle: ,c,eirri, clearest wnere it is not possible for a reasonable no" t . ° o io rivesend a . t any other conclusion, it 'void be v,iises, it to a jury ; but we do say that &ado' ' t i ll or cases of apparent fraud (using the Word lIPPari.V,), opposition to clear, undoubted, a nd poo o ` ii r ;b o la ought to be sent to a jury, and the transtioti°l,ll4s• or avoided, according as the finding of jury -. We tired k or affirmed the existence of fi=ololtauiq -now it is a rule of both courts of l a ' ° I" ic; 0 ° f never to presume fraud ; and applying this r ule ;s o, our alleged frauds, in the two cases under di g it ° t hiq we put it to any man whether there be s n i t ] icrio on the face of either of • them tre a t " 1,0 164 to a reasonable suspicion of &s o' • oos di'ct Ill"' - nuer at these alleged frauds separately'. th er l . - 0 ,1 do otccnouar cording inference :i f :us : ass :l A lt tb. i s l ees ::: oo : l third is the only one that is in our oillion 00.1400 w coo e r r u i : k aes ept back, in u e , r ' 1 t -1 : 1 il° tionable. But Ist us dissect this chiV' t ' ii i i slrJt profitable? We answer, to retain them. Now in omler ultimately - i - ; 1 , t hig !hem, where is the overt act of fraud, tlP°° v ell ` c siii' instance, , the-shares. were retained or rt./ 1 : 4° 0 00 e which such fact, in the absence of any ottrt,i,e yeri, teeth to found an intention to defraud, in ' ' t a d of ~ Noirot;tpl.....l:lll:oetht of a long established andiViell-kllOO T ... or equity, these charges are said to be sufficient w ort 0 1 sort the special ground of fraud, and g ive s C°„ f ri , tquity the p r i v ir ege of adjudicating between part s, Opt Although we have deemed it propfr to,t,b,,r ° ,ellelf these remarks on the decision of the ice - jele e t for 1 0 , a be we nevertheless beg to express our rear lin II A in& and ability ; but at the same time we s— , I (de paying him but an indifferent compliment, if i' l a ec tet , to speak out boldly our sentiments upon ", . 05 60 anwhdiobreasapopenr however o t w o euvsertocobnesociolanntrtaryit tei,nanyro,%,ilth Joie modern • doctrines of Court of Chancery egt!' t / ; 0 1 ,1 equity which the world well knows is not just.lere'ito in fact has but little reference to that first Alta g r duty of man to man. t c -CO • e! nies, no particular affection for-their de ll „ii n g j o iet* U'e hare no . great admiration for Joint-sws. - 0 pit Directors, or their. schemes ; but in disliill..6 0 stock Companies, we are not so unfair as to visi , he k. }link ' displeasure .on the Directors only. ‘I-- i ("00 1 ' subscribers are equally to blame, for' hovler er ths frs o were' anhtitited, and its dealings rendered pilbilti, an d lar chievoui, not by the'Directors Only, but bY t 1 17.1 ito t icnoegfr a a stihiosetn insbheua Now htensa?et amounts t o their brother subscribers, whose good luel4 sad merit, has kept them from the directorial eh 1. Airti o lpici il P Pini waa originally concocted, it is evident it:;1 o-- chairs, however, they would have filled wih,, out le - had boa hs l4l () —...i "f nain